“There was a lot of openness I didn’t expect,” he says. Loveland had arrived in Beijing a year before the Summer Olympics, with the city abuzz with preparations. A decade had passed since ...

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was revenge time for the normally dominant United States basketball team. This time the team was assembled with a plethora of stars with no compromises as the ...

Usain Bolt has revealed the one competitor who made him nervous before races. The legendary sprinter was largely dominant during his decorated track career and, despite regularly showing a cool ...

Rebecca Adlington won two gold medals in the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing, while Steve Parry won a bronze in the 2004 games in Athens. Adrian Turner won a silver and bronze medal at the ...

Montell Douglas is known as Fire on the hit show Gladiators but she made history as the first British woman to do the Summer ...

rather than wearing the Nike Kobe 3 or the upcoming Nike Kobe 4 (the model that set off the low-top revolution in basketball shoes), Bryant wore the Nike Hyperdunk 2008 in the Summer Olympics in ...

Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has been elected to head the International Olympic Committee. The two-time gold ...

Citing Beijing's proven success in maximizing the Games legacy, the International Olympic Committee's president-elect Kirsty Coventry has called on future hosts to learn from China's best practices to ...

Kirsty Coventry elected as the 10th – and first female – president of the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year ...

She won gold in the 200m backstroke at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics - taking ... in charge will be the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina in 2026, followed by the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ...

Gao Zhidan, director of China's General Administration of Sport and president of the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC), has ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and become the first woman and first ...